<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Keychain access allows you to reset the password. There's even instructions at Apple on how to do it.<p><hr></blockquote><p>Could you find that for me? I have run across this many times, and I have looked many times at Apple and with Google, and see nothing in Keychain Access on it.<br><br>Closest I could find is this;<br><br>http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106973<br><br>Note the first line "You may delete and recreate a keychain file if the keychain is inaccessible (locked with a lost or unavailable password)." This involves removing the old keychain and making new a blank one.<br><br><br>------> JD's Trivia game<br><br>------> MCF-MM Trivia game

To reset your keychain, you can use Keychain First Aid (built into <br>Keychain Access; was a separate application under Mac OS X 10.1) and do <br>the repair function. If your default keychain's password is different <br>from your login password, it'll make the same as your login password, <br>which is the default condition. Keychain First Aid also checks other <br>keychains you have access to, so X509Anchors should get checked as <br>well.<br><br>-*-*-*-*-<br><br><br>Found that here: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/macpartners/2004-June/000537.html and it is 2004 so older system.<br><br>

Thanks. In the link you sent it mentions using “Synchronize login keychain password” in Keychain access. It appears they did away with that in 10.4, good move. That explains the confusion in whether it can be changed or not. I was never aware that could be done.<br><br>For anyone interested here's how it used to be done in the old days;<br><br>http://www.kunaldua.com/blog/?p=100<br><br>------> JD's Trivia game<br><br>------> MCF-MM Trivia game

Me ole friend Google again. Threw in some combination of words a couple times and then tried to guess if any of the links might be related to what you guys were talking about. That one had too much terminal stuff in it for me to actually understand, so I actually PM'd it to Reboot so as not to embarrass myself if I was 100 miles off the mark. . . <br><br>Hey, I get lucky now and then. <br><br><br><br>

Hey try this for me, since I'm on 10.4, and I can't tell if it'll work in 10.5<br><br>In Keychain access, create a new keychain. Call it test, give it a password of qwerty (unless that's your login password, just give it a different one)<br><br>Now lock all keychains.<br><br>In the finder, go to ~/Library/Keychains<br><br>Delete test.keychain.<br><br>Make a copy of login.keychain, rename it test.keychain.<br><br>Click back into keychain access and see if you can unlock test.keychain.<br><br>In 10.4 typing in qwerty will unlock the keychain, and give you full access to everything that was in the login.keychain, since the test.keychain is essentially that keychain now.<br><br><br><br>Hey I'm an F'n Jerk!®

I can unlock the test keychain with the test password, but it shows empty, same as 10.4. If I quit then relaunch keychain, test shows my login items, but can't be unlocked with the test password, needs the login password to unlock. But, if I try to check mark the password button in the Info window for an item, and put in the test password it won't show the item's password, says wrong password, and if I try and use the login password, rather than saying wrong password it says "access denied." I tried in 10.4 and yes the login password then can show the passwords for the items.<br><br>I tried all this before and after unlocking keychains, with the same results.<br><br>I don't think the login.keychain password is reset when changing passwords from the installer DVD though. That is where I have run into problems. If it's not none of the above would work in 10.4 or 10.5 as login.keychain would still have the old unknown password. I'll try the above hoop jumps then I'll try changing the Admin password in Accounts prefs and see if that changes keychain passwords.<br><br>------> JD's Trivia game<br><br>------> MCF-MM Trivia game

That's odd, we're doing something different albeit slightly different.<br><br>Creating the test keychain, then trashing it and replacing with a copy of login keychain does the trick for me. <br><br>Heck, you don't really need to lock it either, just clicking off, then clicking back into it reveals the contents. Again, that's in 10.4., perhaps it's changed slightly in 10.5.<br><br>That's pretty much the gist of getting into the system key as well.<br><br>There is a check box to automatically change the keychain passwords when you change account passwords. I usually change my account password a few times a year.<br><br><br><br>Hey I'm an F'n Jerk!®

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